Lifestyle Stories from August 12, 2025 (Change date)
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6 things I’ve learned in 25 years of food journalismAug 12, 2025 5:06 am - As Veggies columnist Joe Yonan enters semi-retirement, he looks back on 25 years in the food business and the things he’s learned from talented writers, cookbook authors, home cooks, chefs, farmers and gardeners along the way.
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A jammy, sweet-tart plum sauce steals the show in this skillet chickenAug 12, 2025 4:14 am - Peaches are the golden child of summer stone fruit season. Meanwhile, plums are like the oft-overlooked middle child — rarely in the spotlight but no less deserving of love and attention. This savory skillet dinner pairs plums and red onion as a deliciously sweet-tart complement to chicken thighs.
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Why you should buy your berries in the freezer aisleAug 12, 2025 4:11 am - Many people prefer fresh berries for their yogurt or cereal, certain recipes or healthy snacks. But when you can’t eat them fast enough — since they spoil, often within days — or they are out of season, frozen berries are the way to go, experts said.
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How I learned to stop stressing and just have people over for dinnerAug 12, 2025 4:10 am - Having people over doesn’t have to be stressful, time-consuming or expensive. Here are a few strategies for making it something we could all do a little more often.
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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.Aug 12, 2025 4:00 am - Researchers say the modern-day potato evolved from hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants and another potato-like plant, known as etuberosum, in South America up to 9 million years ago.
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